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travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
I also worked in a library and loved it, I am retired now but still a big user of my local library. And, in the library or at used book sales I can't help straightening the shelves as I look.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
I am fairly new here and still find it fascinating. Have fun.
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March 12 - 14 What are you reading this weekend? Share with us.
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Finished The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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and started In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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Molly, your post reminded me that when anyone in the family got gift books from my mother she had read them first. We do the same thing.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
and New York by Edward Rutherfurd. Coming for me at the library on Wed. will be Too Much Money by Dominic Dunne.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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I just saw a review of Jodi's newest book, 'House Rules'. My library system has it on order so I put in a request and am number 55. Anyone else read a review? Although I like some of hers better than others, I enjoy read…
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
Mine was also Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. For lighter reading I finished Knit The Season, the latest about 'The Friday Night Knitting Club'.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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Great idea to take a notebook and then add release information when back home.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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Later this Spring we will be traveling across the USA. I would like to release books along the way but will not often have access to the Internet, we stay in campgrounds. I can register and write journal notes before lea…
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
Also reading The Christ Conspiracy - The Greatest Story Ever Sold, and just finishing the last disc of World Without End by Ken Follet, 36 discs but excellent.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
I'm listening to World Without End by Ken Follet, the long-awaited sequel to The Pillars of the Earth from 1989. I am on disc #31 of 36. I listen to 'books' while I quilt in the afternoons. I get them from the library.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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I love her books, all well written (to me), on important subjects and well researched. Have you read any of her other books?
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
Hi, we are not that far from Spring Hill. Same situation here, I see a couple of other members listed for Dunnellon but no activity for a long time. I recently joined BC and am fascinated with it.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
We travel to the Southwest every year or so to visit family in the Phoenix area and have friends who live north of Tucson. We love the area and the last few years have been exploring the canyonlands in Utah. On our next …
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
Thanks azuki. Dunnellon is 25 miles west of Ocala so quite a long drive to Miami. We lived for 9 years in the Pompano Beach area. Don't expect to be in Miami but you never know.
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What older books do you love? not the recognised classics, but books you read years ago, which have disappeared from the shelves, or sunk without trace.
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Judy Bolton Series
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
I liked these more than Nancy Drew. Rarely see them in used bookstores and wish I had kept them.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
I'm in, too, for the first time.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
I found no books by Acharaya in my library system but have gone to the website which looks interesting. I have some credit on amazon so will order one of her books.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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Oh no, more books to read, I had not heard of the books by Acharay, I will look them up on my library catalog and see what I can get. Thanks for the suggestion.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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I read The Spiral Staircase first, then The History of God. That was somewhat like a textbook, a lot of information that I won't remember but gave me a sense of how all religions change over the years with the different …
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
Thanks, meqanh,
I didn't realize I could look in the members section to look for others in Dunnellon. Still checking out everything.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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Has anyone read any of Karen Armstrong's books? I have decided I need to learn a lot more and find her books well written and informative. Many more of her books to read yet but finding them interesting.
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
I recently bought 'New York' but haven't gotten to it yet. Years ago in the library I worked in I kept looking at 'Sarum' but it was so big. Later I found it at a book sale and bought it. I since have found and bought al…
travelsquirrel
14 yrs ago
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Hi to all of you. I registered yesterday and released my first book. This site is fascinating, I don't see anyone else in my area so it will be interesting to see if that changes. I am retired, did office work and also w…
